16 Best Crossplay Games for Consoles and PC (2024): Xbox, PlayStation, Switch, Mobile

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Fortnite developer Epic besides owns and operates the Unreal Engine and a immense room of developer tools, including the Epic Online Services platform. These tools fto developers adhd akin crossplay functionality to their ain games. We notation it present due to the fact that you'll spot it popular up again. If you privation to play games crossed gaming consoles oregon devices, you mightiness extremity up with an Epic relationship eventually.

Available connected PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, PC, and Android.

Minecraft ($20+)

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Microsoft subsidiary Mojang's Minecraft is an unusual paradox of crossplay. Players tin articulation the aforesaid servers adjacent arsenic they play connected antithetic platforms, but they person to beryllium utilizing the aforesaid version. If you've been playing Minecraft since it came out, you whitethorn inactive beryllium connected the Java Edition, which tin beryllium played crossed Windows, Mac, and Linux devices.

However, the Minecraft: Bedrock Edition—or conscionable Minecraft, since 2017—works crossed Windows, iOS and Android, Xbox One and Series X/S, PlayStation 4 and 5, Nintendo Switch, and adjacent VR systems similar Windows Mixed Reality and PlayStation VR. There's a notable lack there, though: Bedrock Edition doesn't enactment connected astir Macs. Mac players volition person to usage the Java Edition to play with their friends, and adjacent past lone with different machine players. It's a weird hurdle to get implicit if you're a Mac user, but determination are plentifulness of crossplay options if you ain different devices.

Available connected PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, PC, Mac, Android, iOS.

Helldivers 2 ($40+)

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One of the biggest breakout hits of 2024, Helldivers 2 is simply a cooperative third-person shooter with a beardown Starship Troopers vibe. Teams of up to 4 players enactment unneurotic to laic discarded to procedurally generated bug-infested worlds. Your squad tin usage a assortment of high-octane weapons including rocket launchers, walking mechs, and orbital strikes. It's lone disposable for PC and the PS5, but crossplay is supported crossed some platforms.

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